Fast-sinking jellyfish could boost the oceans’ uptake of carbon dioxide
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 28 May, 2013
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Increasing numbers of gelatinous plankton might help in mitigating the carbon dioxide problem. In field and laboratory experiments scientists have shown that dead jellyfish and pelagic tunicates sink much faster than phytoplankton and marine snow remains. Jellies are especially important because they rapidly consume plankton and particles and quickly export biomass and carbon to the ocean interior....